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Managing Thinking, Managing Knowledge
Read more: Managing Thinking, Managing KnowledgeOn March 2, 2011, Pakistan’s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated. Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe. In this case, Bhatti was a Christian, and (to his detriment) was outspoken about it. …
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 3
What to do now? Some organizations are great at redefining roles. Others are terrible. Honestly, it’s part of the change management process, but again, some are great at change and others not. The big question in this series: What do I do now? Generically, that’s easy. Specifically, depends on your company. In part 1, we…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 2
Coping with the loss of friends and associates (the guilty survivor) One of the worst things for both management and the retained organization is deciding and coping with the people who will be losing their jobs. As mentioned in the first part of the series, sometimes there just isn’t a spot for great people. Old…
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So You’ve Been Retained: Part 1
Who are you? With the recent glut of HRO and other outsourcing deals, it’s obvious that some employees are going to be invited to stick around, and others will be given the pink slip. With over 100 HRO deals out there (defined as fully outsourcing at least 5-6 processes), there have been a fairly large…
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An Introduction to TCO
Earlier this week, Elaine commented on my article from last week How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save. Elaine writes: “Frankly, there are so many articles published stating different outcome of offshoring and outsourcing ventures. More often than not, people are confused on which side to believe in and which is telling the truth or lying.”…
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Talk About Hewitt
There’s been a lot of it lately. Our own Donald Glade wrote about it here, and Jason did here. First off, my response to Jason Corsello: ADP should not buy Hewitt. ADP does not have a proven track record integrating acquisitions into their business model. They acquire and then try to turn every acquisition into…
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The Future of Open Source Applications
Open source technologies have been part of the software and technology landscape for quite some time. Except for the very notable exceptions of Linux and Java which have acheived mainstream success, other open source applications have not had the same market impact. Perhaps this is a bit unfair as Java and Linus are applications that…
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On Engagement and Learning
The following is heavily plagiarized from Fortune Magazine (reference below) Francis Upton was a Princeton-trained mathematician. Working for Thomas Edison, he wrote to his father, “The strangest thing to me is the $12 that I get each Saturday, for my labor does not seem like work, but study.” It was Upton who bought the Instruments…
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An Interview with Employease
I’ve been quite up front in my admission that I don’t know much about the mid-market for HRMS. As part of my education, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the absolute leaders in the mid-market HRMS arena – Employease. I have no issue saying that they are a leader as Gartner seems…
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How Much Can Outsourcing Really Save?
I set this article aside some time ago with the intention of commenting on it at some point. Now is as good a time as any. The story, “Survey: Outsourcing saves less than claimed” is based on a survey conducted by TPI. The gist of the story is summed up in the lead: “Outsourcing of…
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To Engage Employees, Let Them Go
The Edelmann blog highlights a New York Times article analyzing the affect of vacation time (or lack of) on employee engagement and turnover within the younger generation of workers (not quite phrased that way of course). Many young people in the workplace are finding that quitting their job is becoming the satisfying new alternative to…